PC Gaming Is Dead!

Well if the pc developers want to stab us pc owners in the back and go console i'll just mod chip the damn thing and say screw you for doing that... The only online game i have ever played in the last few years has been halflife 2 mp mods!

Really not interested in playing some 10year old kid in some alley across the world

p.s Unlikely though , i hate the damn controller and the no brain console playing games
 
PC gaming dies when, and only when, Blizzard says it does ;)

Even if no new game gets made for PC from her on, the WOW guys will still be grinding away :D
 
PC gaming is far from dead.

10 million gamers subscribe to a single MMO, god knows how many play other titles like CSS, oblivion, HL2, Crysis.
 
wordy said:
PC gaming is far from dead.

10 million gamers subscribe to a single MMO, god knows how many play other titles like CSS, oblivion, HL2, Crysis.
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That might be one of the problems. Game sales can be measured (although afaik there's no definitive stats) but numbers playing can't be. 10 million guys playing WoW is a lot of lost sales for other games. Just look at any gaming forum to see the hours racked up by the players. It's a time sink to the exclusion of many other parts of peoples lives including other games.

OK, i'm not saying some people don't buy other games at the same time but large numbers won't because they only have so much time to give to gaming and that's all going on one game. WoW is far from the only example. Aside from other Mumorpugers whose entire aim is to suck you in and hold you for as long as possible there are games like Sup Comm, Civ 4, M2TW, NWN2, Gothic 3 etc (just from a glance at my shelf) which'll provide over 100 hours play before you even think about mods.
 
I quit PC gaming 2 years ago and haven't looked back. Don't get me wrong theres still classics that I play Civ 4, AOE, Deus Ex & Baldurs Gate etc but they really don't make them like they use to. Console sales dwarf PC game sales for two good reasons. One being you don't need to mess around with settings or upgrade parts, the other being that consoles now have a lot of the things that made pc gaming unique in the past (online, deeper complexity, downloads etc).
 
Reiver said:
That might be one of the problems. Game sales can be measured (although afaik there's no definitive stats) but numbers playing can't be. 10 million guys playing WoW is a lot of lost sales for other games. Just look at any gaming forum to see the hours racked up by the players. It's a time sink to the exclusion of many other parts of peoples lives including other games.

OK, i'm not saying some people don't buy other games at the same time but large numbers won't because they only have so much time to give to gaming and that's all going on one game. WoW is far from the only example. Aside from other Mumorpugers whose entire aim is to suck you in and hold you for as long as possible there are games like Sup Comm, Civ 4, M2TW, NWN2, Gothic 3 etc (just from a glance at my shelf) which'll provide over 100 hours play before you even think about mods.
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I think that kind of assumes that everyone has a lvl 70 raiding character, despite the many comments to the contrary on this forum I think a large majority of WoW players are just casual players. Also the amount of copies other game sell indicate that 10 million WoW players are small minority compared to the total numer of gamers. Yes WoW is probably the most popular game in the world after Counter Strike, but other games also have large followings, Guild Wars for example with over 1 million users
 
has he missed cod 4 over twenty thousand servers went up wihin a month thats hardly dead and thats one game.pc gaming of the future will be just online experience.where as single player more casual go console route.
 
But we're missing something important, amount of players doesn't really matter. If 10 million players are playing COD4 but 9.5 million of them pirate it (these are obviously hypothetical figures) then the money is not going to the game developers and they're less likely to make future games.
 
The huge & lucrative market in neverending PC upgrade components will keep it alive, Nvidia, ATI, Pentium & AMD will see to that even if they have to commission games themselves. A lot of games enthusiasts will to buy Console & PC, Console for the conveniance of
playing anywhere there is a TV & PC for the graphical supremacy plus the community add -ons of mods & levels etc
 
~>Dg<~ said:
has he missed cod 4 over twenty thousand servers went up wihin a month thats hardly dead and thats one game.pc gaming of the future will be just online experience.where as single player more casual go console route.
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If anything, it could be the complete opposite if CliffyB is right. With the rise of Xbox Live and PSN, I bet there's more people play CoD4 on consoles than on the PC.

And the next generation is only going to have a bigger focus on online play.
 
Neil79 said:
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?p=1335354487

^ Is this pc gaming is dieing , i doubt it :D
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Exactly. Even if the developers stopped making the big games, you could pretty much download a freeware PC game / modification every week for the next 5 years and stay entertained.

The PC is alive and kicking, unless you're totally clueless and surf the internet with your eyes closed!

Also, if there was such a thing as "PC marketing department" that spilled out the kind of gibberish the console companies do i'm sure most people would change their minds with phrases appearing like

PC Exclusive, FULL HD, AAA - downloadable content!

Suckers.
 
seriously!! how about using the search button at the top and contributing to one of the other hundreds of 'PC dead' threads that spring up every month instead of making a new one.

as for the source.. CliffyB can suck donkey balls, boo-hoo his games have sold a few copies on this platform, games like Sins of A Solar Empire show that we PC gamers will buy quality software regardless of garnish and availability, if its worth playing we'll buy it.

dead my ass!
 
fendi said:
I just reinstalled Baldur's Gate 2 + expansion. Superb! No way is PC gaming dead :)
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Erk. Do not follow the logic there mate.
PC gaming has a marvelous back catalogue but like you I find myself going back to a lot of games. I do this rather than buy or play the new releases as most don't do it for me anymore. Without going into full sepia tint, warburton's ad music, reminisce mode: PC gaming ain't what it used to be. The games that attracted me to the PC are no longer there and I find myself either relying on mods or retro gaming to get my jollies. I've gone from buying 3 or 4 games a month to maybe 8 or 9 a year.

The thing is that's not to say i'm not enjoying gaming. I'm still having a great time in BF2 and Mount & Blade but i'm just not buying new games and therefore putting a lot less money into the industry. I can't be the only one. Even 2 years after its release 100s of thousands are still playing Oblivion millions are grinding away in WoW and Civ4 is still scoffing up social lives.
 
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